Bandage and the like.



D. SARASON. BANDAGE AND THE LIKE. APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 25, 190s.

- Patented Apr. 20, 1909.

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BANDAGE AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters PatentA Patented April 20, 1909.

Application filed June 25, 1908. Serial No. 440,351.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID SAEA'soN, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Berlin, German Em ire, have invented cer- Iimprovements in Bandages and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in so called hydropathic or wet bandages or compresses. Ordinarily in making such applications a linen or other cloth wrung out in water is wrapped round or laid upon the part of the body to be treated and a woolen or like wrapper then bound over it. A serious defect of this method is, however, that owing to the outer wrapper being separated from the skin of the patient by the wet inner cloth, it does not lie close at the edges, so that air readily gets access to the wet cloth.

. A further disadvantage is that the wrapper and cloth are very liable to shift their position relatively to each other, with the result that the cloth becomes more or less exposed. In either case the risk of the patient taking a chill is very great.

The object of my invention is to obviate these drawbacks and my invention consists in the improved bandage hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically claimed.

Two forms of bandage made according to my invention are shown by way of example in the accompanying drawing.

Figure l is a plan of a bandage in which the wrapper edges are adapted to be folded l down upon the wet cloth. Fig. 2 is a plan of a modification, in which the wrapper is furnished with .thickened edges.

Referring to Fig. l, the edges a-l of the outer wrapper a are stifliened in any suitable manner, such as by means of tinfoil or other desirable material, which while being readily pliable is sufficiently strong and not resilient. lhis may be done in the manner shown in the drawing, transverse tongues of tinfoil b being attached to the mar inal portions of the wra per c, as can be c early seen at 1. In emp oying the bandage the wrapper a is, spread out and the edges al turned up at right angles to the web on the line x-fy, so as to form as it were a trough. The foil tongues now constitute angleieces and Serve to retain the edges a1 in t e upright osition. The wet cloth o is next laid in the ed of the trough, whereu on the upright edges are folded down upon the cloth e in the manner shown at 2- on the bottom part and all along the top part of the bandage (Fig. l). With such a bandage it is obviously impossible-for the wet cloth c to shift, since the folded and stiifened edges a1 of the wrapper retain it in place. Nor is there any danger of the patient catching a chill; for as the marginal 1portions of the finished bandage, owing to t e overlapping edges al, are thicker than the central portion, they t tightly against the part of the body to which the bandage is applied and effectually prevent air having access to the wet cloth c, which is completely shutin by them. In other words, whereas in prior bandages the space which exists between each edge o'f the wrapper and the skin of the patient is occupied by the respective edge of the wet cloth, -in the new bandage the equivalent space is filled up by the thickened marginal portion of the wrapper itself. The actual cloth-receiving pore tion of the wrapper may conveniently be made with a long plain-web extension (a portion of which is shown at 3), which in applying the bandage is wound over the rest of the wrapper, thus holding the whole firmly together.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 2, the wrapper a is furnished with thickened edges (L2 from which extend the foil tongues b. Vith this bandage' the foil tongues must first be turned up so as to project vertically upward from the web, the wet cloth c is then laid fiat upon the bed presented by the central portion of the wrapper a between the thickened edgesa2, whereupon the foil tongues are folded down upon the cloth c again to hold it in lace while the bandage is being ap lied. T e thick edges c2 constitute a su stitute for the folded edges al of the bandage shown in Fig. l. If some care is employed in applying the bandage, the foil tongues b may be altogether dispensed with in this modification, since their office is, as already explained, but a temporary one; when once the bandage has actually been applied, it is really the thickened edges a2 which prevent shifting of the cloth. It is obvious that, if desired, in addition to the wet cloth c, a rubber, oil-cloth or other non- 105 porous layer may be used with the wrapper.

Having thus described my invention, I declare that what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. A bandage, comprising a cloth ada ted to be wetted, a wrapper covering the ack of the same and having marginal portions which ooniine the edges of the cloth7 and. edges of the cloth, and metal foil tongues 10 metal foil tongues attachedA tosaidy marginal attached to said marginal portions of the portions of the wrapper and adapted to fold wrapper, substantially as described.

down upon the cloth, substantially as de- In testimony whereof I ax my signature scribed. l in presence of two witnesses.

2i, A bandagg comprising a cloth adapted DAVID SARASQN. to be wetted, a wrapper covering the back Witnesses: of the same and having marginal: portions HENRY HASPER,

which are adapted to fold down upon the WOLDEMAR HAUPT. 

